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June 21, 2006
and all the skies, so brilliant blue, turned suddenly to grey
It's been raining all morning, and since the only umbrella in the house has gone off to the library for the day, all of the errands that I put off yesterday are going to have to wait. I've been working on some blue projects for June, and a gloomy day like this seems an appropriate time to show them.
I picked up this ugly green cotton pullover a few months ago at a small-town Christian thrift store in Georgia; the clothes in this store were separated into rooms, one room for "children", one for "moms" and one for "dads", exactly the sort of place where I usually succumb to the temptation to flaunt my heathen lifestyle. Somehow this time I managed to resist.
Because green is just so last month, I unravelled the sweater and dyed the whole lot blue instead:
Also in the same dyebath, this lambswool with a strand of spandex, recycled from a Gap stretch sweater I got at the buckapound (is it any wonder why I'm so damned cheap when I can get good soft wool for a dollar a pound?). I assumed the spandex wouldn't take the dye at all, but it actually took more than the wool, and ended up a bright dark thread, which you can just see if you squint:
The cotton is well on its way to becoming Ms Marigold.
This morning's rainy day indoor project:
Five half-pint jars of peach salsa. They've just come out of the kettle, and hearing all of those lids popping from the next room is one of the most satisfying sounds there is.
Posted by jodi at June 21, 2006 10:03 AM | categories: project spectrum
Comments
This post made me smile.
Posted by: NWJR at June 21, 2006 10:37 AM
I'm so with you on the sound of jar lids popping. Happy, summer, bountiful, tired and sweaty, virtuous, satisfied, yummy sound.
Posted by: emmieyiza at June 21, 2006 10:46 AM
Mmmm, peach salsa. Mmmmm, Ms. Marigold.
Posted by: Jenna at June 21, 2006 11:48 AM
How do you dye cotton? Koolaid? Rit fabric dyes?
The formerly green yarn looks great as mottled blue.
Posted by: Melissa at June 21, 2006 12:12 PM
Peach salsa! I know, don't you just LOVE those popping sounds of the lids? It's just one of life's little pleasures. I'm about to go out and pick rose petals for some rose petal jam.
Posted by: Norma at June 21, 2006 12:25 PM
yay for dyeing! and i've never heard of peach salsa but now am strangly obsessed with it!
Posted by: brenda in toronto at June 21, 2006 12:58 PM
That Ms. Marigold pattern is adorable! Peach salsa sounds wonderful, too.
Posted by: himbly at June 21, 2006 06:33 PM